Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of “growing out of it”.
This is the person they have chosen to be.
Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends:
No. 5 No. 68.
The rest is all groups, pages and ads.
Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, but the impact is dramatic.
Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails.
This is a different approach to AI.
I’m spending the day at a conference about newsletters for publishers. Here’s some live-blogged notes from a panel about lessons publishers can learn from independent newsletter companies.
Some good insights here.
Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in plain sight.
Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks .
/signed
Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore.
Idiots. Physical back up right there.
I miss the old group blogs that were a big feature of the 2000s internet. Dave Winer thinks we should bring them back, but with a fediverse twist.
Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to “the ‘grim”, and I’m not entirely sure that’s actually wrong.
Could an afternoon in the woods at the rewilded Knepp Estate rewild my child?
My youngest and I went along to find out — and found ourselves fascinated by barn owl pellets…
I don’t need a forest bathing ticket or expensive gear to sit and eat a cheese and pickle sandwich on a fallen tree trunk. I don’t need an end point, a map or a phone.
Dal Kular in Wild Service, edited by Nick Hayes 📚
When a man begins to turn the earth he finds that spring is not born in the branches of the trees, but down in the cold and dark and damp. Before the first mild morning had stimulated birds to sing, some influence had been felt down here.
— A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
Finally, the shot I was destined to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.
Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives of your parents', and it slowly dawns on you that this set was shot…
…on a nudist beach.
When going through my late parents' negatives, I found a small number of medium format negs I don’t have the capacity to scan myself. I sent off a trial film to a professional scanning outfit as a test, and the results are quite something…
